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The Prentice government has picked the wrong priorities by boosting money for health ministry communications and strategy at the same time it is cutting funds to deliver care, NDP Leader Rachel Notley...

Lila Lofts’ love affair with her house has lasted longer than her marriage, a near 60-year relationship with the same kitchen cupboards, the same pink bathroom sinks, even the same black-and-white TV set in the basement rumpus room, complete with beige sectional, faux fireplace and wood panelling. The wet bar was moved into the laundry room years ago, since Lofts doesn’t drink. But she remembers the parties and needing all three leaves to expand the dining table for guests.

If you wear glasses, take them off. Dunk them in a puddle, shake ‘n’ bake them with some grit from the shoulder of the road, scrape away what you can with your glove, and then put them back on. That’s the view too many people believe is good enough to have through the windshield of their car. Add glaring sun or torrential rain and you’ll start to understand that all the airbags and traction control in the world can’t save you if you can’t see where you’re going.

Premier Jim Prentice isn’t putting a lot of stock into a new poll showing his PC party is in a dead heat with Wildrose and trailing badly in Edmonton to the Alberta New Democrats. The Mainstreet Technologies survey of more than 3,000 Albertans shows the governing Progressive Conservatives tied with the Wildrose at 30 per […]

A 68-year-old woman who went missing from Red Deer County two weeks ago has been found dead in a remote area south of Evansburg. Police do not believe her death is suspicious. Roze Burk’s vehicle was spotted on Friday about 35 kilometres south of Evansburg by RCMP officers conducting an air search for a separate operation.

Months after federal inspectors say critical food safety checks were quietly cut at meat processors in Alberta, one of the province’s largest plants is having to recall frozen chicken breasts that may be tainted with potentially-fatal listeria. While a Canadian Food Inspection Agency investigation at a Lilydale Inc. facility has yet to determine how the […]

Michael Rault’s latest album is getting a second chance to see the living daylight. The Edmonton expat’s seven-song EP, Living Daylight, was initially released by a Canadian label, Pirates Blend, last June. The Toronto-based rocker will now get to re-release the bluesy, psychedelic-Beatles effort — with three more songs — on California’s Burger Records in May.

HALIFAX — Canada’s Pat Simmons defeated Japan’s Yusuke Morozumi 7-4 to remain unbeaten at the Ford world men’s curling championship at Scotiabank Centre. Simmons scored a deuce in the seventh and stole another point in the eighth end. The ninth […]

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Yet another hangman’s noose – a third – was found inside FCA Canada's Windsor Assembly Plant on Monday night, says a union boss who represents the majority of the workers involved with a $2-billion revamp of the minivan factory.